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The Abolition of Slavery In Pennsylvania
BY Prof. Edward Raymond Turner (The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography Vol. XXXVI (1912) No. 2)
[p. 129] Nowhere can the early history of the aboli¬ tion of American slavery be studied to better advantage than in Pennsylvania. There appeared the first formal protest ever made against slaveholding in North America. There arose the first organized agitation against it. In Pennsylvania was founded the first and greatest of the abolition societies. In Pennsylvania was passed the first law to bring slavery to an end.
Negroes were brought into the colony by the earliest settlers. Cornelius Born, the Dutch baker of Philadelphia, writes about them in 1684; Isaac Norris and Jonathan Dickinson both refer to them; from time to time William Penn speaks of them himself. Hardly had they been intro¬ duced, however, when opposition to slaveholding developed. This opposition arose among the Quakers, and had begun before Pennsylvania was founded. In 1671 George Pox, travelling in the West Indies, advised [p. 130] Friends to threat their negores kindly, and to set them free after a certain time of servitude. Pour years later William Edmundson asked how it was possible to reconcile with Christ's teaching the practice of holding slaves without hope or expectation of freedom.

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The Abolition of Slavery In Pennsylvania
BY Prof. Edward Raymond Turner (The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography Vol. XXXVI (1912) No. 2)
[p. 129] Nowhere can the early history of the aboli¬ tion of American slavery be studied to better advantage than in Pennsylvania. There appeared the first formal protest ever made against slaveholding in North America. There arose the first organized agitation against it. In Pennsylvania was founded the first and greatest of the abolition societies. In Pennsylvania was passed the first law to bring slavery to an end.
Negroes were brought into the colony by the earliest settlers. Cornelius Born, the Dutch baker of Philadelphia, writes about them in 1684; Isaac Norris and Jonathan Dickinson both refer to them; from time to time William Penn speaks of them himself. Hardly had they been intro¬ duced, however, when opposition to slaveholding developed. This opposition arose among the Quakers, and had begun before Pennsylvania was founded. In 1671 George Pox, travelling in the West Indies, advised [p. 130] Friends to threat their negores kindly, and to set them free after a certain time of servitude. Pour years later William Edmundson asked how it was possible to reconcile with Christ's teaching the practice of holding slaves without hope or expectation of freedom.